Louis Desjardins wrote: > Better still, but I think it is already on the > to-do list, to have Frame Styles and give them keyboard shortcuts... > This would be super fast and super efficient, imo. How it would work > is simple: when nothing is selected on the page, just hit that > keyboard shortcut and the corresponding frame appears, all set.
Well yeah and I remember talking with you Louis about this at LGM (or was it some earlier thread here) and based on that I've implemented (half way) the shortcut addition to styles in the new Style manager. Please, bear with me but it is improving daily. SM was started for that we could have an easy way to create all kinds of styles and would have a consistent looking and behaving place to edit and apply them. Frame styles will be the second new style available. Character styles are already in and semi working. The idea about creating an object based on style clicking, I'm not too sure about that. Where exactly would this apply and what type of frame should be created when a frame style is clicked without selection? What should happen if some other style is clicked, character style for example? With a frame style there'll be all the default frame options plus the options for all kinds of frame types it's possible to apply to. What I mean is that a frame style would probably have these sections: 1. General Properties, 2. Text Frame Properties, 3 Image Frame Properties and 4. Shape/Polygon Properties. I probably even forgot something. Now when clicking on a frame style with no selection what frame type should be created? Should there be a check box for each frame type that could be set to only one of them to create a frame of that type when this style is clicked. I'd also like to hear what should happen when clicking on some other style (paragraph, character or even hyphenation style like CS suggested) without a selection.
